Chemistry Reference Resolver - saves huges amounts of time by resolving chemistry references (of the form JACS 2011 11211) into URLs for you. No more need to navigate journal web-pages. From my testing: ACS and RSC journals don't need volume numbers. For Tetrahedron and Tet. Lett.: skip the year, and give a volume number instead.

Feedspot - replacement for Google Reader (for those who remember it), or for others: a good way to keep up to date with journal articles.

Gives you a button in which you can type chemistry references (e.g. "jacs 2011 11211") to resolve them to article pages. Also adds a search engine to Chrome: you can type "ref" <TAB> "jacs 2011 11211" <ENTER> to search directly from the Omnibar.

Takes you to an actual PDF of an article, not a ReadCube file or something full of frames.

Setting up the Chemistry Reference Resolver as a search engine in Chrome [UPDATE: the current version of the Chemistry Reference Resolver Extension does all of this for you, but with the "ref" keyword]:

The Oxford Thesis Class which I started from. My changes (in the form of my thesis.tex and revised class file) are on Github here. The Github repository includes the first two chapters of my thesis.

Alt-Codes

You need a keyboard with a separate number pad to use these Alt-codes. To type these symbols, hold down Alt and type the three- or four-character code on the number pad. On Windows, to find more Alt codes use the Character Map program. Browse through it to find the symbol you want, and the Alt code appears in the bottom right.